Nostril Phrases

Phrases

• Always have your nose in a book
• As plain as the nose on your face
• Beat the living snot out of
• Beat the snot out of
• Blow your nose
• Can't see beyond the end of your nose
• Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
• Down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose (line from nursery rhyme)
• Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man
• Fish and guests smell after three days
• Follow your nose (Froot Loops advertising slogan)
• Get up your nose
• Give someone a bloody nose
• Gorilla snot
• Hit it on the nose
• Hold your nose
• I love the smell of napalm in the morning (Apocalypse Now)
• I smell a rat
• It's no skin off my nose
• Keen sense of smell
• Keep your nose clean
• Keep your nose out of
• Keep your nose to the grindstone
• Lead by the nose
• Look down your nose
• Nose around
• Nose dive
• Nose for crime

• Nose for trouble
• Nose to tail
• On the scent
• Pay through the nose
• Powder your nose
• Put off the scent
• Put your nose out of joint
• Put your nose where its not wanted
• Rose by any other name would smell as sweet
• Rub someone's nose in it
• Rub your nose in it
• Scent marking (Leaving a trail of scent marks)
• Scent to bed (French Connection United Kingdom advertising slogan)
• Smell a rat
• Smell blood
• Smell the Glove (fictional album by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal Tap)
• Smell ya later
• Sniff out the truth
• Stop and smell the roses
• Sweet smell of success
• The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd
• Thumb your nose
• Turn your nose up at
• Wake up and smell the coffee
• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
• Win by a nose
• With your nose in the air
• You smell, I stink (Samuel Johnson quotation)